Although she had been unable to stop herself from drawing close to Lin Yi before, when she was actually "approached," she instinctively felt a sense of resistance.
Lin Yi froze for a moment.
While he had been holding her, he had thought nothing of it, treating her as a soft cushion. But when Li Huiyuan jumped away herself and that cool-warm touch vanished in an instant, he began to feel a sense of loss.
"Just now, I..." His gaze flickered as he tried to recall.
That's right...
Didn't I just see the reflection in the water, and then see that reflection reach out a hand?
I just wanted to deal with it once and for all while Boss was still here, if I could!
"But how did I end up pulling Li Huiyuan out?"
"No, no, no... that hand... was Li Huiyuan's!"
"What's going on..."
"What exactly is going on?"
"The boundary!"
"The hand reaching out wasn't the Faceless's. It was Li Huiyuan's. But... when exactly did the Visual Hallucination end?"
His thoughts suddenly grew somewhat chaotic, because he felt that the boundary between "reality" and "illusion" in his cognition seemed to be blurring...
Just as he was about to start thinking about these things again, singing in a very strange pitch suddenly rang out:
"In a moment of bewilderment~ that feeling of having lost something~"
"Without noticing, it has faded~ the love in my heart~"
Lin Yi froze, his thoughts interrupted just as he was about to sink into them.
For one thing, the singing was truly beyond description. Apart from keeping to the beat, the Cantonese delivery was terribly awkward.
For another, he followed the singing and saw a cringing figure swimming over along the edge of the Swimming Pool...
It was Wei Liang.
"Forgive me for loving